Background
Ishu Patel was born in the State of Gujarat, India. He received his B.F.A. from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, Gujarat. He was among the first cohort of faculty trainees hired at the newly formed National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a design school created by the Government of India under the auspices of the well known textile industrialist family of Gautam and Gira Sarabhai, and based on the recommendations and ideals of Ray and Charles Eames. During these early years of faculty training, a stream of extraordinary international experts was invited to the National Institute of Design for periods of work and faculty training: Ray and Charles Eames; Buckminster Fuller; Architects Louis Khan and Otto Frie; Furniture Designer George Nakashima; Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson; Typographer and Designer Adrian Frutiger; Graphic Designers Armin Hoffman, Bob Gill and Ivan Chermayeff; Textile Designers Helena Parhentupa and Alexander Girard; Children's book writer and illustrator Leo Lioni and Animator Gulio Gianini and many others. During this time Ishu Patel worked closely with Armin Hoffman, Bob Gill, Adrian Frutiger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charles and Ray Eames, Leo Lionni, and Gulio Gianini.
Through a Ford Foundation Grant provided to the National Institute of Design, Ishu Patel finished his post graduate studies in Graphic Design under Armin Hoffman at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. He returned to the National Institute of Design where he taught and became Head of Visual Communications.
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